
View looking North from West Point Water Battery of the Hudson between Storm King (on the left) and Breakneck, with vertical section of the aqueduct tunnel under the riverThe rock-bed of the Hudson is indicated by R, R; S is the body of the sediment between the river current and the rock-bed; W, the black line indicating varying depth of river water; A, B, aqueduct tunnel emerging from Storm King; B,C, tunnel shaft now being sunk from the shore of Storm King; C, D, aqueduct tunnelabout a half a mile long to be bored in solid rock twelve hundred feet below the surface of the river; D, E, tunnel shaft shaft now being sunk from the shore of Breakneck; E, F, G, H, continuation of the aqueduct tunnel into Breakneck, with a rise to flow-level, whence the aqueduct will proceed to the enlarged Kensico Reservoir
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